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BNC: 364 COCA: 267

father

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Related topics: Family
fa·ther1 /ˈfɑːðə $ -ər/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC]   → farther
1  parent 家长SSFFATHER a male parent 父亲，爸爸
 Ask your father to help you.
叫你父亲帮你。
 Andrew was very excited about becoming a father.
安德鲁初为人父，非常激动。
 He’s been like a father to me.
对我来说，他就像父亲一样。
a father of two/three/four etc (=a man with two, three etc children) 两个/三个/四个等孩子的父亲
 The driver, a father of four, escaped uninjured.
司机是位有4个孩子的父亲，他安然逃脱，没有受伤。
 Steve recently became the proud father of a 7lb 12oz baby girl.
史蒂夫最近自豪地当上了爸爸，有了一个7磅12盎司的女儿。
n2. → Father
3  fathers [plural]FAMILY people related to you who lived a long time ago 祖先，先人，先辈 SYN ancestors
 Our fathers were exiles from their native land.
我们的祖先被迫流落他乡。
→ forefather
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fathers• Our fathers came to a new country with new hope.
n4. → Father
5  the father of something INVENTthe man who was responsible for starting something 某事物的创始人，某事物之父
 Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.
弗洛伊德是精神分析之父。
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the father of something• At another, he deals badly with his role as the father of a deaf son.• Tests to ascertain the father of the child.• If I hadn't run away and made good, you'd never have been the father of Lady Firth.• Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in 1856.• George Washington is the father of our country.• In their world it is not the father of the bride who digs into his pocket to pay for the wedding.• He gently and rather apologetically wrote and sent to the father of the student the two letters of which complaint is made.• Lowe was the real father of modern computing and a very important figure in IBM's ranks.
6  from father to son if property or skill passes from father to son, children receive it or learn it from their parents 〔财产或技艺〕父子相传
 This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son.
在这一地区，古老的手艺父子相传。
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from father to son• The centuries' old recipe has been handed down from father to son.• The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son.• This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion.• Their status was hereditary, land and titles being passed on from father to son.• Land passes from father to son: his is split between himself and his father.• The whole gentile constitution made the transference of private property from father to son impossible.• The eyes of those in the room shifted uneasily from father to son.
7. like father like son LIKE/SIMILARused to say that a boy behaves like his father, especially when this behaviour is bad 有其父必有其子
8. a bit of how’s your father British EnglishBrE informalSEX/HAVE SEX WITH the act of having sex – used humorously 性交〔幽默用法〕
→ city fathers, founding father
n THESAURUS
father a male parent
My father’s a doctor.
He’s a father of three.
dad informal used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father
Can I borrow your car, Dad?
Her dad retired ten years ago.
My dad was in the army.
daddy a name for father, which is used especially by young children or when you are talking to young children
Where’s your daddy?
Daddy, can I have a drink, please?
pop American EnglishAmE informal (also pa old-fashioned) used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father
I helped Pop fix the gate this morning.
Can I help, Pa?
He is in New York with his Pop’s credit card, eating all the ice cream and pizza the city has to offer.
papa old-fashioned informal used when talking to your father, or about someone’s father
Papa had forbidden me to go.
She saw her papa’s face change at this news.
somebody’s old man informal someone’s father – used when talking about him in a way that is not very respectful
His old man wouldn’t let him use the car.
stepfather (also stepdad informal) a man who is married to your mother, who is not your father but often acts as your parent
Her stepfather is really nice.
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father• Larry Blake, a father of three children, was shot dead outside his home last night.• Jerome pocketed the smokes from his father.• When his father died, Marshall ventured with two partners into yarn manufacture by the new process of spinning flax by machinery.• Pianto has been working with his father for 21 years.• His father emphasized strenuous effort to achieve goals and total obedience to those in authority, and he ranted about corrupt politicians.• My respects to you, and my father.• Now that my father is dead, I must be old Mr Scott, Adam wanted to tell him.• My father's a doctor.• In 1969 there were three generations of the Holmes family taking part, father, son and grandson.• He's now the proud father of a three week old baby girl.• Agnes, do not fight your father over this money.
a father of two/three/four etc• Hadley, 35, a father of two from Great Barr, Birmingham, denied four indecent assaults but was found guilty.• Steven Hurley, 41, a father of three from Barnsley, has tongue cancer that is now inoperable.• Philip Appleby, 44, a father of three from Wylam, Northumberland, was the unanimous choice of the constituency party.• Speaking as a father of three, this sounds absolutely perfect but I do have one worry.• In the end, he is a father of two daughters and the husband of a former debutante.• Equally disenchanted with bilingual education is Agustin Mendoza, a father of two who works as a baker in Oakland.• But Philip, a father of three, died before an ambulance arrived.• The 34-year-old Northumbria force officer was a father of two from Sunderland.
Father
1 a priest, especially in the Roman Catholic Church 〔尤指天主教的〕神父
 I have sinned, Father.
我有罪，神父。
 Father Devlin
德夫林神父
PRIEST 神父 → Holy Father
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Father• Heavenly Father, please forgive us our sins.• Have you met Father Simmons?
Father
1 RRCa way of talking to or talking about God, used in the Christian religion 天父〔基督教里用于称呼上帝〕
 our Heavenly Father
我们的天父
GOD 上帝
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Heavenly Father• Amen Heavenly Father, we pray for the talks about peace in the Middle East.• The Umpire - it had to be Heavenly Father!• But Heavenly Father is out of earshot.• What has happened is nothing short of a miracle; Heavenly Father has heard our prayers.• Tell Heavenly Father what was in your heart of hearts.• I thank Heavenly Father, for it is the only escape I can think of.• In a vision given to one of his followers, the Heavenly Father stated that the Bible contained errors.
father2 verb [transitiveT]  
1  BABY/HAVE A BABYto become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant 成为…的父亲
 Hodgkins fathered seven children.
霍奇金斯育有七个子女。
2  START something/MAKE something START formal to start an important new idea or system 首先提出，创立〔新思想或新体系〕
 Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.
比万首先提出了国民医疗服务体系的概念。
3 father something on somebody phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE SAY/STATE formal to claim that someone is responsible for something when they are not 把〔责任、某物的来源等〕误加于某人
 A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him.
他被误传为一本爱尔兰故事集的作者。
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father on • He repeated the words and phrases while his father looked proudly on.• Nature makes mothers but societies have to make fathers.• Her father jumped on the croc and wrestled her out of its jaws.• Helen Saltonstall, my mother, married Amon Dempster, my father, on the first Sunday in October, 1869.• My father, on the other hand, could not be so easily summed up in a single paternal nickname.• In other words, it was the sins of the father getting visited on the son.• His father died on Thursday but his family decided not to tell him until after yesterday's race.
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father• Taylor denies fathering her 4-month-old son.• Elephant seals are so severely sieved that in each generation a handful of males father all the offspring.• An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man.• Bill was told he would never be able to father children.• He fathered eight daughters and three sons.• All the portraits in this book show men who father from the heart, but none more than this one.• He fathered nine children with four women and the unpaid amounts totaled $ 25,000.• In other versions, Zeus rapes Demeter and fathers Persephone.• I do not know how I can have fathered such children.• Roosevelt fathered the concept of Social Security.• Unfortunately, Edison was not himself a musician, and the technology he fathered was never used for mass-producing serious musical records.
Origin father1
Old English fæder
fa·ther1 noun →n THESAURUS1FatherFatherfather2 verb
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BNC: 364 COCA: 267
father

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ADJECTIVE | VERB + FATHER | FATHER + NOUN | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤lone (especially BrE) , single單身父親◇As a single father, he found it a struggle bringing up three children.作為一名單身父親，他發現帶大 3 個孩子真不容易。➤married, unmarried已婚的／未婚的父親◇a married father of two有兩個孩子的已婚父親➤divorced離婚的父親▸➤widowed鰥居的父親▸➤absent, absentee, estranged缺席的父親（很少和孩子溝通）；與孩子疏遠的父親➤long-lost長年失散的父親◇Ryan has gone looking for his long-lost father.瑞安去尋找失散多年的父親了。➤biological, natural, real, true生父；真正的父親▸➤adoptive, foster養父▸➤second, surrogate第二個／替身父親◇I always thought of you as a second father.我總是想起你，覺得你就像我的父親。◇Elena's brother was a surrogate father to her kids after her husband died.自從埃琳娜的丈夫死後，她的哥哥就擔當了孩子們的父親。➤expectant即將做父親的人◇He paced like an expectant father.他像一個即將做父親的人那樣（緊張地）踱着步。➤new新父親◇Meet your new father.見見你的新父親。◇The new father took his son into his arms.這位新爸爸將兒子抱在懷中。➤doting, proud寵愛孩子的／自豪的父親◇He has just become the proud father of a baby girl.女兒的降生使他覺得非常自豪。➤young年輕的父親▸➤ageing/aging, elderly, old衰老的／上年紀的／年邁的父親➤ailing, dying, sick患病的／奄奄一息的／生病的父親◇He has an ailing father and two younger brothers to support.他要養活生病的父親和兩個弟弟。➤dead, deceased, late過世的父親；先父➤grieving悲痛的父親◇the grieving father of two children lost at sea因兩個孩子在海上遇難而悲痛的父親➤caring, devoted, good, great, loving, responsible, wonderful關心人的／一切為了孩子的／很好的／偉大的／慈愛的／有責任心的／了不起的父親◇He is very good with children and would make a devoted father.他對孩子很好，會是一位盡責的父親。◇He was a wonderful father to her.在她看來，他是一位了不起的父親。➤beloved, dear敬愛的／親愛的父親◇She kept the books that had belonged to her beloved father.她一直保留着她所深愛的父親的書。➤bad壞父親◇He was both a bad husband and a bad father.他既是一位壞丈夫，又是一位壞父親。➤distant冷漠的父親◇He had a domineering mother and a cold, distant father.他有一位專橫跋扈的母親和一位冷漠無情的父親。➤domineering, overbearing, overprotective, strict專橫跋扈的／盛氣凌人的／過於袒護孩子的／嚴厲的父親▸➤abusive, alcoholic, drunken, violent打罵孩子的／酗酒的／醉熏熏的／粗暴的父親➤famous著名的父親◇He followed the footsteps of his famous father into the film industry.他追隨大名鼎鼎的父親，從事電影事業。➤doctor, engineer, immigrant, etc.身為醫生、工程師、移民等的父親◇Their musician father encouraged their love of music.他們做音樂家的父親鼓勵他們熱愛音樂。VERB + FATHER➤resemble, take after長得像父親◇The two boys were like their mother in character, but Louise took after her father.兩個男孩子性格像母親，但路易絲像父親。➤follow, succeed跟隨父親的職業；繼承父業◇She followed her father into the legal profession.她跟父親一樣從事法律工作。◇He succeeded his father as Professor of Botany.他和父親一樣，成為了植物學教授。➤inherit sth from⋯遺傳自父親◇She inherited the urge to travel from her father.她熱愛旅行是從父親那裏遺傳來的。➤honour/honor, love, obey, respect尊重／愛戴／服從／尊敬父親◇Try your best to honor your father.盡量尊重你的父親。➤lose喪父◇I lost my father when I was nine.我 9 歲時父親去世了。➤bury埋葬父親◇I buried my father, and mourned his death.我埋葬了父親，為父親的離世哀傷不已。FATHER + NOUN➤figure父親般的人◇Some of his students regard him as a father figure.他的一些學生把他看成父親。PHRASES➤a father of two, etc.兩個等孩子的父親◇Smith, a father of two, was arrested on charges of theft.兩個孩子的父親史密斯因為偷竊而被捕。➤father to sb某人的父親◇Jesse is now married and father to a young son.傑西現已結婚，而且已有了一個年幼的兒子。➤follow in your father's footsteps繼承父業◇He followed in his father's footsteps and became a motor mechanic.他追隨父親成了汽車修理工。➤from father to son從父親到兒子◇The land passes on from father to son.這塊地由父親傳給了兒子。➤the death of your father, the loss of your father父親的過世
BNC: 364 COCA: 267
father noun
⇨ mother
BNC: 364 COCA: 267

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